powershell-ise

Custom read-host dialog for PowerShell 2 CTP3 ISE

Is it possible to hook a custom dialog into the new PowerShell ISE (Integrated Scripting Environment) that replaces the existing .NET WinForms dialog. I am talking about the dialog that the Read-Host cmdlet launches to request for user input. ...

Why is XDocument.Descendants() returning IEnumerator in PowerShell ISE?

I'm writing a PowerShell script to manipulate some Windows Installer XML (WiX). I'm using the new XML APIs in .NET 3.5 to do this, as I find it an easier API to work with than the DOM. The following script fragment is flatly refusing to work: [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Xml.Linq") | Out-Null # Basic ide...

How to read the xml file and write its content into a plain text file?

How to read the below xml file and write its content into a plain text file? <!-- < config > < compare > < source >d:\demo\< /source > < destination >e:\demo\< / destination > < parameters > < parameter >FileName< /parameter> < parameter >Size< /parameter> < parameter>Date< /parameter> < /parameters > < /compare > < ...

Tabexpansion function Does Not Resolve Variable

I'm attempting to override and implement my own TabExpansion. In the function I want to parse the contents of $psise.CurrentFile.Editor.Text when a certain $lastword criteria is matched. The issue I have is that the variable $psise.CurrentFile.Editor.Text is resolved to the contents of my TabExpansion function rather than whatever text i...

Windows Forms look different in Powershell and Powershell ISE. Why?!

I have written a script which is basically a small wysiwyg signature generator for Outlook. We want our signatures to be in corporate colours, and semi-standardised - hence the requirement for this. I did the development work in Powershell ISE and all looked good. However, when I run the script just using powershell (as the users will) ...

$psise object in the console Powershell

Hi all, is possible to load the $psise object in the console? I want to open several files in ISE but doing >ise filename >ise filename2 just open the first one. Inside ISE i don't have that problem because i use the $psise object to open the file function qwe($file){ if(-not (Test-Path $file)){ New-Item -Name $file -ItemType fil...

How to get Powershell-ISE to release Cmdlet DLL

I'm development a Cmdlet and using Powershell-ISE to test. ISE is keeping my DLL locked and preventing from rebuilding and then reloading. I've tried call remove ps-snappin, but the DLL remains locked. ...

Applying a custom webtemplate to a sitecollection works on powershell ise and not on powershell console

Hi all, I'm working on a automated script for deploying sharepoint projects. I'm using a sandbox level webtemplate that must be applied when de site is created. I had a lot of troubles doing that because it seems like sharepoint caches the list of webtemplates and get-spwebtemplate doens't find the new added one. The way I made it work i...